System Setup
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Our system setup for this review is just like our previous motherboard reviews. I used the ATI Radeon 9700 Pro video card, Western Digital 8 MB cache hard drives and Corsair memory. The memory timings were set at 6-2-2 2.0 unless mentioned other wise due to memory instability.
| CPU | 1 x 2.20 GHz AMD Athlon XP 3200+ Processor |
| Motherboards |
Abit KV7 (6-3-3 2.0) AOpen AK77-600 MAX Asus A7V600 Azza KT600-ALX (7-4-4 2.0) Epox 8KRA2+ (6-3-3 2.0) Gigabyte 7VT600-1394 MSI KT6 Delta Soltek SL-KT600-R Soyo KT600 Dragon |
| Memory | 2 x 256MB Corsair Micro XMS4000 DDR DRAM |
| Hard Drive | 80 GB 7200 RPM WD EIDE |
| Video Card | ATI Radeon 9700 Pro |
| Video Drivers | Catalyst 3.7 |
| Operating System | Windows XP w/ Service Pack 1 |
Tests:
Quake III: Arena
Unreal Tournament 2K3
3DMark 2001:SE
PCMark 2002
SiSoft Sandra Memory Bench
SiSoft Sandra CPU Bench
Content Creation Winstone 2001
Content Creation Winstone 2002
Content Creation Winstone 2003
Business Winstone 2001
Business Winstone 2002
SPECviewperf 7
ScienceMark 2.0 Beta
ScienceMark
NOTE: I screwed up making these graph images: the Epox is the 8KRA2+ NOT the 8K9A2. Sorry!
